346 Sir J. E. Smith's Characters 



T. apulum minimum. Column. Ecphr. p. 1. 122. t. 124. Tourn. 



List. 320. Rail Hist. 412. Moris. Hist. v. 3. 316. sect. 9. t. 16. 



/. 6. 

 Seseli creticum minimum. Bauh. Pin. l6\. 



A variety is subjoined from Boerhaave's Hort. Lugd. Bat. con- 

 cerning which nothing can be ascertained ; and as Linnaeus never 

 again adverted to this supposed variety, we must leave it unde- 

 termined. 



In the first edition of Sp. PI. 239, the Tordylium in question 

 appears with the specific name apulum, and the above essential 

 characters, with a reference to Hort. Cliff, and to Van Royen's 

 Prodr. Lugd. Bat. 94. But its other synonyms are limited to 

 Columna and Bauhin, as above cited. 



Now it appears that the synonyms of Columna and Rivinus 

 belong to two very different plants. Which of these is to be taken 

 for the T. apulum of Linnaeus ? There being no specimen in his 

 herbarium, the specific character must be resorted to as our safest 

 guide, and this agrees with the plant of Rivinus, not of Columna ; 

 " pinnis subrotundis laciniatis." Such was doubtless the plant of 

 the Hortus Cliff'ortianus, which appears by the Viridarium Clif- 

 fortianum to have been cultivated at Hartecamp, and was there- 

 fore seen alive by Linnaeus. Such likewise is T. apulum of Jac- 

 quin, Hort. Vindob. v. 1. t. 53, which that author afterwards find- 

 ing not to answer to the synonym of Columna, he thought he had 

 mistaken the I-innoean name, and in the 3d volume of the same 

 work, p. 2, he refers his plant to the Linnaean T. officinale. 



On the contrary, it appears to me that Columna's figure repre- 

 sents merely a starved variety of officinale, under which species I 

 have long ago quoted it, with a mark of doubt, in Fl. Brit. ; and 

 that Jacquin has described the genuine apulum of Rivinus and 



Linnaeus. 



These 



